WICHITA, Kan. – Wichita State Director of Athletics Darron Boatright announced on Friday that Sarah Adams has been named Senior Associate Athletic Director and Senior Women's Administrator at Wichita State. 

"We are happy to announce the addition of Sarah to our department and to our senior administration team," Boatright said. "She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in this role particularly. Anytime you have an opportunity to hire a qualified individual who was also a student-athlete, we feel very fortunate. Sarah will join us the end of this month and I hope you get an opportunity to welcome her into Shocker Nation."
 
Adams comes to WSU from Eastern Washington University where she served as Senior Associate Athletic Director/Senior Women's Administrator from October 2018 until November of 2019. She was promoted to Deputy Athletic Director in December of 2019 and served in that role until June of 2021.
 
At Wichita State, she will oversee the compliance, academic support services and sports medicine departments, while leading the vision and goals of the departments and oversee implementation strategies. She will be responsible for correspondence and institutional athletic education and compliance of Title IX, coordinating the yearly Athletics Gender Equity Plan and Minority Opportunities Plan and overseeing NCAA APR and GSR data collection.
 
"I am grateful to Darron and his team for entrusting me with this opportunity," Adams said. "I'm excited to join Shocker Nation and get started in Wichita."
 
Her responsibilities at EWU included oversight of facilities, compliance, academics, human resources, sports medicine, sports performance, Title IX, policy development, budget management and management of the sport administrators' group.  Adams served as the sport administrator for men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball.
 
In addition to her work in the department, she was involved with the Big Sky Conference governance structure, serving on several committees and as the administrative liaison for women's golf.  Adams is currently serving a four-year term on the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee and is a participant in the NCAA Pathways Program.
 
Before EWU, Adams worked at the University of Northern Colorado, where she served from 2014-18 as its Associate AD/SWA.  She also served as Associate AD for Compliance and Student-Athlete Support Services and Assistant AD for Compliance during her tenure at Northern Colorado, starting at the school in 2008.
 
While at UNC, Adams had oversight of the department's internal operations, including compliance, facility and event management, sports medicine, sports performance and was the department liaison for academics.  She was sport administrator for six sports - women's soccer, softball, women's swimming and diving, volleyball, women's basketball and wrestling, and had previously had oversight of cross country and track and field.  Serving on the Athletic Director's executive staff, Adams played a key role on the search committee and hiring of numerous head coaches, assistant coaches and other staff.  As SWA at UNC, Adams monitored Title IX Compliance, completed the EADA report annually and served as the institution's Title IX Deputy Coordinator for Athletics and sat on the Equity and Diversity Council.
 
During Adams' time at UNC, she developed and maintained a comprehensive NCAA compliance program and had oversight of athletic financial aid for all 19 sport programs. Additionally, she served on several Big Sky Conference Committees, was a member of the Women Leaders Foundation Fund, a NCAA Regional Rules presenter and board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Weld County.
 
Prior to her arrival at Northern Colorado, Adams was the Assistant AD for Compliance at the University of New Mexico, where she had oversight of NCAA compliance for all 21 varsity sports. Before New Mexico, Adams served as Compliance Coordinator at Weber State University, and worked as the Compliance and Governance Assistant at the Patriot League.
 
Adams received her undergraduate degree in Sports Management from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2001, where she also competed as a student-athlete on the women's golf team.  She earned her Master's Degree in Sport Administration from Xavier University in 2004.